JimMora
- Presenter
ith his likeable, easy-going and erudite style, Jim Mora's career has spanned current affairs, entertainment and lifestyle shows. His TV profile alone reaches back more than 30 years and his time in radio stretches even further: from The South Tonight and Holmes, to Mucking In and hosting Radio New Zealand's Afternoons.
Biography
When Jim Mora left Otago Boys High School to attend the University of Otago, he foresaw an academic career, most likely as an English professor. But instead university provided his first taste of journalism, as editor of student paper Critic. At the same time he dabbled in student radio and from there, by his own admission, he more or less fell into radio. In the early 1970s he was taken on by private station Radio Otago as a junior journalist.
Screenography
Awards
1995 Qantas Media Awards
Televison Award: for his Holmes reports on the Cave Creek Tragedy
“I’ve listened to your voice so long Jim I feel like I know you.”